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Since Sep 2025
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School of Practice, the first podcast from the team at Edutopia, brings you ready-to-use strategies to improve your teaching today. Join us for 15-minute episodes filled with smart, pedagogy-shifting advice—backed by research and test-driven by teachers just like you.

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11 Ways to Improve Teacher Well-Being

Jun 09, 2026 24m

Teaching is hard (often draining) work, and educators’ instincts about what will bring relief are frequently wrong—just as they are for most people.  That’s because our minds deceive us, says…

Rethinking Zeros in the Grade Book

May 26, 2026 23m

What’s your take on eliminating zeros from the grade book? Does your school have a no-zeros grading policy? Even if it doesn’t, you probably have opinions about it.  Setting 50% as the minimum…

14 Excellent Ways to End the School Year

May 12, 2026 19m

The end of the school year can feel like the best––and worst––of times.  On the one hand, it’s a great stretch because “the routines and procedures are set,” and the kids have their sights set on…

One Task, Many Doors: A More Effective Way to Differentiate

Apr 28, 2026 21m

It’s a mistake to assume that good differentiation always means splitting students up into small groups, says Michael McDowell, an author, coach, and former teacher.  A more effective approach, he…

Helping Students Overcome the Forgetting Curve

Apr 16, 2026 22m

Have you ever delivered a lesson and felt your students were acing it, only to revisit the same information a week later and realize hardly any of the new content stuck? You just came up against the…

How to Teach Students to Spot What’s Real, Fake—or Deepfake

Mar 31, 2026 22m

Can your students spot what’s real and what’s AI-generated on TikTok and Instagram?  How about when they’re researching topics for humanities classes, gathering sources in social studies, and…

How to Teach Deep Mathematical Thinking

Mar 17, 2026 20m

Narrow, rigid math has “turned students off for generations,” says renowned researcher and Stanford mathematics professor Jo Boaler.  Yet teachers often don’t have much choice when it comes to math…

Smart Strategies to Improve Your Scaffolding

Mar 03, 2026 21m

Getting scaffolding right—amid the messy reality of teaching 30+ students at different skill levels—is one of the toughest challenges in teaching.  Done well, it looks like tactical magic: teachers…

Boosting Reading Comprehension for All Students

Feb 17, 2026 19m

Maybe you’ve seen it in your classroom: Students who zip through chapters but then can’t tell you much about what they just read. To move those kids from fluency to sense-making, you’ve got to teach…

How to Use Formative Assessment Like an Expert Teacher

Feb 03, 2026 21m

Have you ever been shocked when your students bomb a unit test after weeks of seemingly locked-in learning?  Veteran educator Jay McTighe has the ultimate research-backed solution: formative…

Handwriting Is Essential—Here’s How to Teach It

Jan 20, 2026 21m

Did you know there’s a strong connection between the hand and the neural circuitry of the brain?  As students learn to write letters by hand, they also learn to recognize them more fluently. This…

How to Talk About (and Normalize) Learning Accommodations

Jan 06, 2026 21m

It’s a tricky (but very common) classroom dilemma: How do you talk about—and normalize—learning accommodations in class without singling anyone out in front of peers?  Unfortunately, many teachers…

The Most Significant Education Research of 2025

Dec 17, 2025 28m

Are you curious what the latest research reveals about everything from brain breaks to groundbreaking research on AI, cell phones, and handwriting in the classroom? Then you won’t want to miss this…

How To Improve Student Note-Taking in 3 Smart Steps

Dec 09, 2025 20m

When students take notes during a lesson, research shows they get just about 30 to 45 percent of the important information right on the first try.  High school teacher Benjamin Barbour discovered…

Converting ‘Fast Finishers’ Into Self-Directed Learners

Nov 25, 2025 19m

“I’m done, what’s next?” In every classroom, a handful of students will finish the work at warp speed. While the rest of the class is still mid-task, teachers must quickly pivot to keep the fast…

How to Teach Authentic Writing in the Age of AI

Nov 11, 2025 21m

The idea that you’re not a writer unless you stare down a blank page and produce text—that’s about to change, says high school teacher Jen Roberts. In her classroom, AI is not the enemy. It’s a tool…

The Extraordinary Impact of Drawing to Learn

Oct 28, 2025 21m

Did you know that drawing can be a learning superpower—even for students who claim they’re not good at it?  When kids attentively sketch something they’re learning about, they tap into the visual,…

How to Get Students to Ask for Help When They Need It

Oct 14, 2025 17m Transcript

Humans are social creatures, hardwired to take cues from others. If students don’t see classmates asking for help, they assume they should avoid it too. But when help-seeking becomes visible in the…

A Flexible Seating Arrangement That Teachers Love

Sep 30, 2025 18m Transcript

After trying numerous seating arrangements—including rows, blocks, and U shapes—educator Jay Schauer stumbled on a desk layout that outperformed them all. Edutopia’s community took notice. In this…

How to Use ‘The Look’ Like an Expert Teacher

Sep 17, 2025 14m Transcript

It’s a powerful, non-verbal classroom management tool designed to curb off-task behavior without breaking the flow of learning. Here’s how to use it across grade levels. Crystal Frommert has been…

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